I’m working on my nightstands now to match the bed I built over a year ago and posted here. I’m doing the corners of the tabletop frames with a somewhat complicated joint. I put this one together today as a test piece to dial in the jig I made and just to be sure I could do it.

Of course I’m not vane enough to think I invented a new joint – I’ve just never seen one quite like it and dont’ know if there’s a name for it. If I were to take a stab, I’d call it a mitered and pegged finger joint.

The reason I’m going to this trouble is that I move back and forth overseas every few years (active duty military). My last move from California to Germany wreaked havoc on some plain miter joints in my living room furniture. I could have just done splined miters, but I decided to go this route for the challenge, and so that I could incorporate a little purple heart with the pins (and actually have them functional).

The actual joints in the night stands will be tighter and not blown out (I hope, anyway). I’m making those out of curly maple with purple heart pegs.

i would probably still just call it a miter joint…..with a peg in it – haha. I dont think the peg will actually add anything to the joint, strength wise…..just decorative. maybe I’m wrong. cool looking joint though! good job

Here’s a couple more shots for clarification of how it goes together. I’m with ya, dakremer, that the peg is more or less just a decorative element – considering all of the long grain-to-long grain glue surface there already is in the joint.

Looks kind of like bridle joint on steroide with a miter thrown in for decorative effect and then pegged. I does look really cool. I don’t know if you put the peg in for decoration or if you thought it would be good for strength, but it would do both, although, I seriously doubt that joint would ever break if properly glued. The wood would break long before the glue joint. I agree with Cabs4less, if you had to make a lot of them, that could get old in a hurry, but that would be a very attractive treatment on the corner of a table or possibly a mitered frame for a cabinet door. Nice work.